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Life Quotes by Jonathan Safran Foer
- SADNESSES OF THE INTELLECT: Sadness of being misunderstood [sic]; Humor sadness; Sadness of love wit[hou]t release; Sadne[ss of be]ing smart; Sadness of not knowing enough…
- I got incredibly heavy boots about how relatively insignificant life is, and how, compared to the universe and compared to time, it didn’t even matter…
- Everyone is always in need of something that another person can give, be it undivided attention, a kind word or deep empathy. There is no…
- We live in a world made up more of story than stuff. We are creatures of memory more than reminders, of love more than likes.…
- I spent my life learning to feel less.
- I'm not funny. People assume that because my books are funny, I'll be funny in real life. It's the inevitable disappointment of meeting me.
- I'm interested in the kind of religion that makes life harder. I'm not so interested in the comforting kind of religion.
- Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.
- If there is no love in the world, we will make a new world, and we will give it walls, and we will furnish it…
- I don't think that there are any limits to how excellent we could make life seem.
- The bruises go away, and so does how you hate, and so does the feeling that everything you receive from life is something you have…
- I felt, that night, on that stage, under that skull, incredibly close to everything in the universe, but also extremely alone. I wondered, for the…
- I spent my life learning to feel less. Every day I felt less. Is that growing old? Or is it something worse? You cannot protect…
- When I looked at you, my life made sense. Even the bad things made sense. They were necessary to make you possible.
- Why didn't I learn to treat everything like it was the last time. My greatest regret was how much I believed in the future.
- So she had to satisfy herself with the idea of love - loving the loving of things whose existence she didn't care at all about.…
- I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live.
- When I was a girl, my life was music that was always getting louder. Everything moved me. A dog following a stranger. That made me…
- And so it was when anyone tried to speak: their minds would become tangled in remembrance. Words became floods of thought with no beginning or…
- It's true, I am afraid of dying. I am afraid of the world moving forward without me, of my absence going unnoticed, or worse, being…
- They reciprocated the great and saving lie--that our love for things is greater than our lover for our love for things--willfully playing the parts they…
- Her life was a slow realization that the world was not for her and that for whatever reason she would never be happy and honest…
- My life story is the story of everyone I've ever met.
- She was like a drowning person, flailing, reaching for anything that might save her. Her life was an urgent, desperate struggle to justify her life.
- We laughed and laughed, together and separately, out loud and silently, we were determined to ignore whatever needed to be ignored, to build a new…
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- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
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- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
- Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Happiness depends upon ourselves. — Aristotle
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle